Beschreibung:
During its heyday in the early 1950s, EC Comics was an innovator in the so-called ""preachies"", socially conscious stories that challenged the conservatism of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines a selection of these works and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice.
Contents Preface A) Introduction: The Preachies 1: Spelled Out Carefully in the Captions How to Read an EC Magazine 2: We Pictured Him So Different, Joey! Optical Illusions of Blackness and Embodiment in EC 3: Oh God…Sob…What Have I Done…? Shame, Mob Rule, and the Affective Realities of EC Justice 4: Battling, in the Sea of Comics EC’s Invisible Man and the Jim Crow Future of “Judgment Day!” B) Conclusion: Hence We See Justice Triumph! Appendix Notes Bibliography Index